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I wanted to post this cause it worked for me. 
My drivers side door would not open from the inside or the outside. It was like it was stuck between locked and unlocked. The door stuck closed so it was not going to be easy to remove the door panel.  I did research online and could not find an easy option to try.  Here is what I did. 
I leaned on the door between the outside door handle and the edge of the door to take pressure off of the latch. While leaning on the door I pulled the outside door handle and popped open. I then lubed up the actuator and operated the latch several times. It works perfectly now.  I won’t say that this will work in every situation, it is something easy to try before you try to take the door panel apart with the door stuck shut. 

  • 4 years later...
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Thank you Fazah,

Lubing the Latch from inside and outside with door stuck shut worked for me.

While your solution did not allow my door to open, it DID have me focus on the latch instead of the lock/unlock slider! I sprayed silicon lube in towards the latch from the inside and the outside, THEN the door WAS able to open. Woo Hoo!!! I then sprayed the latch repeatedly with silicon while cleaning as much grease and dirt as I could from the latch and with the handle held up, I moved the latch open/closed many, many times. I also sprayed and worked the inside lock/unlock slider, the pull handle and the pull handle on the outside too. And for good measure, I repeated the same procedure on the other side.

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